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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NDEA Loyalty Provisions Brought Fruitless Battle For Educators Since 1958 | 10/4/1961 | See Source »

...will be one of the greatest wine years of the century. That was the word from Marcel Lugan, director of France's National Confederation of Wine and Wine Spirits of Appellations of Origin. In a transport of sedimentality, Lugan rhapsodized to newsmen that "the wines of 1960 are like Zizi Jeanmaire-nervous and muscled, but not full-bodied and rounded. The wines of '61 will be like Mae West-a Rubens woman to whom one can add nothing; a Bardot wine, if you like-round and appealingly plump." Or, to put it less plumply, "1961 is a black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food & Drink: Mash Notes | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

Words of Latin and French derivation referring to the sex act and bodily organs are acceptable in English. Bloomfield testified, but words of Angio-Saxon origin with identical meanings are tabu. He also said that certain words common to lower social classes are slowly becoming more acceptable in modern literature...

Author: By Joseph L. Featherstone, | Title: 'Tropic of Cancer' Trial Closes Its Second Session | 9/28/1961 | See Source »

...report the news. Nuclear explosions in air generate sharp pulses of radio energy that can be picked up at great distances and clearly distinguished from everyday static. When two or more stations note the direction from which a pulse comes and the instant that it arrives, its point of origin can be calculated accurately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Detecting the Tests | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

Died. Abbé Henri Breuil, 84, paleontologist-priest who in the face of disbelieving colleagues proclaimed the paleolithic origin of the famed cave paintings at Altamira, Spain, and the Dordogne region of France-a contention that was later borne out by radioactive-carbon dating; near Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 1, 1961 | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

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